From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:20:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87y4sngami.fsf@engster.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <877g08ggd8.fsf@engster.org> <83ppe09b9w.fsf@gnu.org> <8738avhpwf.fsf@engster.org> <83iojraopc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412958717 29161 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 16:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 18:31:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcd6c-0008Pd-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcd6b-0001zB-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccvP-0000Of-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccvI-0004q3-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:56346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccvI-0004pQ-65; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:20:08 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=M/bXqdHLib11Yp5PkbRPnAhSJF9aa/SGWBWUlj6MHPk=; b=aHiF/zE+ZTKTk8HhS8B/aipcTh8aldsWwlI03aDz+63oSx8dhR7vmZCWrhqy3cULJXhCFDc+7zcVaZuZLBHZSOuA7YuQQGjHSF7BEIsgcjz2J5q2433l+O6UY/qdlDRs; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-039-039.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.39.39] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XccvH-0006LI-4s; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:20:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83iojraopc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:12:31 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100383 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > But some of them seem to be sporadically supported. E.g., they offer > Make 3.81, whereas GNU Make 4.1 was released a few days ago (so at > least 3.82 and 4.0 are missing). Yes, I guess that package needs a maintainer. But at least there is already one to build upon. I think that wpkg, being based on dpkg/apt, might be better technically and from a license point of view, but I can't even browse the "Package Explorer" on the site, so that's even more discouraging... -David